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You’re thinking of mxcl, the creator, not me. I also applied and failed a final stage job interview at Google (and various other places over the years) but never really bothered me that much. Ironically I think I’d probably never have started working on Homebrew if it had.
oh sorry i was wrong, glad it happened then, and thx for your work!
Well, I might as well ask my tech support question here :) I just ran the upgrade to 6.0.0, and it downloaded so many things concurrently that it killed my wifi (old router). Is there a way to cap bandwidth or maximum concurrent connections? (this is something I have to do in many download heavy apps, e.g., steam)
Slightly tangential, but I went to set up Homebrew today on a new Mac. Stupidly clicked the top link in Google (which was sponsored but not obviously so). Took me to a spoof Homebrew page. I ran the script. Typed in my Mac password like a fool when prompted, and nothing happened. Then I realised what an idiot I’d been. Claude found evidence of an exfiltration malware on my laptop and I inmediately wiped the device an…
I've heard of that but never experienced it on my Google. Weird. I just retried that now and it's giving the correct link. Maybe that's why it's not being fixed.
I think what happens is a legitimate business with a history of legit Google advertising gets compromised by malware, and then their Google adverts are flipped.
Slightly tangential, but I went to set up Homebrew today on a new Mac. Stupidly clicked the top link in Google (which was sponsored but not obviously so). Took me to a spoof Homebrew page. I ran the script. Typed in my Mac password like a fool when prompted, and nothing happened. Then I realised what an idiot I’d been. Claude found evidence of an exfiltration malware on my laptop and I inmediately wiped the device an…
We’ve complained about this to Google many times to no avail. It’s very frustrating. They are literally paid money to let people install malware on your machine. Please direct all annoyance and resentment to them (we share it).
I am so frustrated at Google, not just for this incident, but for many reasons (like their inexplicable shutdown of my own Adsense account years ago, and their neglect of several products I'd built against or bought). When they act, they leave us with no recourse. I feel anxious being dependent on them, even for simple stuff like my email account.
They are sufficiently big that they no longer care about the little guy anymore. They are only interested in swallowing up all the World's data and cashing in on Workspace.
I know this runs on Linux too. As a Linux user, I'm unclear on why I might use this instead of apt or dnf, for example. Any Linux users out there have experience with both Homebrew and one of these?
Since everybody runs their own unique permutation of apt or dnf packages, adding as little as possible will keep you as close as possible to what distro maintainers test. There's even OSes like Fedora Silverblue or Bluefin or SteamOS that ship with a fully baked _image_ - where installing system level packages is strongly discouraged - which helps ensure predictability and stable upgradeability.
Homebrew packages also tend to be more recent (this depends on your distro of course) and don't require elevated permissions to install.
[1]: Other unprivileged package managers like Mise or Nix do the same of course
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We’ve complained about this to Google many times to no avail. It’s very frustrating. They are literally paid money to let people install malware on your machine. Please direct all annoyance and resentment to them (we share it).
Firstly, Mike, thank you for all you've done with HomeBrew - an amazing product. None of my ire was directed at you or HomeBrew. I am so frustrated at Google, not just for this incident, but for many reasons (like their inexplicable shutdown of my own Adsense account years ago, and their neglect of several products I'd built against or bought). When they act, they leave us with no recourse. I feel anxious being depen…
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Huh, I've never even considered that those words had anything to do with beer. I've just accepted them at face value, same as any other tech jargon.
The whole concept comes from homebrewing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing
How many more supply chain attacks will it take for someone to build a really great sandboxing/permissioning system, that's easy enough to use that we actually use it?
Say I install an `ls` alternative (because it's on the HN front page as 'ls but in lang du jour' or whatever) – it should be really simple for me to allow it read-only access to only the passed directory. I don't think firejail or apparmour even supports that, and it'd probably take me half a day to figure it out in bubblewrap.
I just want a mobile-OS style pop-up the first time programs try to do something for me to deny, approve always, approve this time, approve by dir, or custom thing matching on the args.
Homebrew is so good that I use it on Linux whenever possible. Most Linux package managers cannot separate user-installed packages from system packages. This makes cleaning up your workstation nearly impossible and a pain in the ass, since you can't tell what should be removed, or more importantly, what can be removed. Also, most native package managers update much slower than Homebrew, meaning you often only get outd…
Curious about this. Usually I try to get an Apt source (I use Ubuntu). Why would I want to use brew on Linux? I stopped using Macs and brew around 2018 when Apple started closing down it's macOS for a few years and got sick of it. Thanks!
Did I miss the memo?